Book 4: Chapter 32: Take A Risk Out of Desperation

Book 4: Chapter 32: Take A Risk Out of Desperation

Without any hesitation, Poker-Face suddenly dropped his hand and instructed us to shoot. Fatty and I fired at the same time, quickly emptying two magazines.

A tongue of flame spewed out of each muzzle as we shot into the gap. If there was something in there, it definitely would've been hit.

When we were in the middle of reloading, Poker-Face raised his hand again. As a result, we didn't continue shooting after we reloaded but just stayed on the alert. He looked into the gap and stood at a stalemate for a long time before he suddenly heard something else and jumped onto a tall rock.

Fatty and I also climbed up and saw a small figure crawling out of a stone crevice in the distance. It had obviously been shot but was moving very quickly to the place where the young man looked like he was meditating.

Fatty lifted his head and shot at it again. He definitely hit it, but that thing stood up and went behind a big rock until it was out of sight.

"As long as its a living thing, it definitely wont live for long," Fatty said.

That thing definitely wasnt a living thing considering how it didnt slow down even though it had obviously been hit, but I didnt know what it was.

One thing I did know, however, was that it was very vengeful. If we hit it, it would definitely cause trouble for us, just like how it was so persistent in killing Jin Wantang.

When I was in Hainan before, I clashed with a monkey on Monkey Island. I still remember the look in that monkey's eyes. After that, it followed me the whole time and suddenly attacked me when I wasn't looking. Later, I got angry and chased it for four hours with a stick, but I ended up getting lectured by the security guards.

Poker-Face looked at me, "The heavenly gift did not warn you."

"But the inspiration just now was so sudden."

I had suddenly remembered Qi Yu and then that thing appeared. Moreover, the whole process was very jumpy as my mind leaped from one thought to another. If it werent for something guiding me, I wouldve never connected the doll from that time to Qi Yu.

"Mr. Nave, don't mistakenly place your bets on the enemy," Fatty said. "If Little Brother said no, then thats that. If you want to talk about inspiration, then I had a flash of inspiration just now. Maybe the thing inspiring you was this stone here?"

"Which stone?"

"It's this stone here." He pointed to the shrine and continued, "Maybe this thing was warning you. After all, its protecting us, so it should be decent."

I looked at the shrine and walked over to it.

When Jin Wantang was dying just now, didnt it seem like he saw something in this direction? I thought about it and realized that it had been a long time since I had used my peripheral vision to look at things. So, I turned my head and looked at the bronze piece out of the corner of my eye.

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I've gotten some flak lately that I'm preventing skilled translators from working on DMBJ with my "terrible MTL" (downside of a contact form since everyone that comments is so nice lol). Is that true? I haven't seen any other serious attempts besides like one or two random posts or stuff that's years old. I will totally step aside if someone skilled wanted to take over, but nobody has personally come up and been like "I want to take over, I think I can do better". When I started this last year, I just saw that nobody was working on it for ages and thought an edited MTL could at least get the general idea across (and then the lovely Tiffany and Yvette came along to help with things). If you all know of someone who legit wanted to do all of this, feel free to let me know. I'd love to have my free time back lol. If not, I guess I'll keep trucking with my "terrible MTL" (yes, I'm salty about that phrasing since my shit is at least readable compared to some translated stuff hahaha)